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New Business Development

• Identify, research, and disseminate information on new funding opportunities from bilateral, multi-lateral, and other institutional donors. Use creative approaches to link programme aspirations to donor priorities, while also effectively influencing the strategies of donors.

• Support cultivation of business relationships with external stakeholders and potential partners for large scale or strategic funding opportunities, either as a prime or sub-recipient in joint ventures.

• Manage the BD pipeline, support the Head of PDP/Awards/ Finance to conduct analysis of Restricted Funding portfolio

• Work with Head of Programme Development & Partnerships, Regional Office, SCI Centre and Members to explore the potential for innovative ways to fundraise.

• Lead on developing ideas, concepts and proposals within a specific thematic area (e.g. health, climate change, education, livelihoods)

• Keep track of up-coming funding opportunities, donor engagement and proposal development process.

• Provide regular updates to the Head of Programme Development & Partnerships, Director of Programme Development and Quality and SMT on the status of the funding portfolio and key trends to monitor.

• Participate in key donor meetings, when necessary, to foster long-term collaboration and engagement.

• Ensure key contacts, required formats and donor compliance information are kept up to date at the country office level.

• Support development of fundraising strategies and donor engagement strategies.

Support Donor and Partner Engagement

• Support the Head of Programme Development, PDQ Director and Country Director to cultivate excellent working relationships with donor agencies at the regional and country-level as appropriate.

• Represent the Uganda office in relevant donor forums, workshops and conferences where new business development opportunities can be formulated.

• Working closely with the Head of Programme Development and Partnerships to develop and regularly update donor mapping tool and engagement plan.

• Lead tracking of adherence to the agreed donor and partner engagement work plan

• Lead Proposal Development/and project design processes and develop high quality projects.

• Lead the high complex/largest priority proposals, including Developing/managing multi-themed consortia/responsibility for overall partner management.

• Manage multiple top-priority opportunities at varying stages of development, while working flexibly to take on other opportunities when the shape of the pipeline requires it.

• Produce proposal development schedules and track timelines, ensuring and facilitating coordination amongst teams – PDQ, Programme Operations, Finance, HR, Security and Member Services.

• Lead the design/ process for, and development of proposals for target donors/partners. Be the author of the proposal, writing content and coordinating inputs from other members of the bid team, based for example on the outputs of technical/design workshops, contextual and organisational information, and experience and capability information.

• Project manage the proposal development process, securing all the required approvals and overseeing quality assurance of the programme design, including the development of theories of change, logframes and budgets (including the MEAL budget component). Work in line with SCI sign off and approval policies.

• Lead the budgeting process, including sign off processes and demonstrate value for money in design. Work closely with Finance and Operations colleagues to produce accurate budgets, that meet donor requirements and internal standards. Demonstrate VFM in design process.

• Lead and/support interdepartmental coordination for programme and proposals development with Programme Operations (for field team inputs, logistics requirements, costings, etc.), Security, Awards Management, Finance & Grants, and HR (for staffing requirements).

• Draft Uganda CO contextual information i.e. capability statements; country context and programme experience, while drawing on the expertise of technical advisors, Operations, Finance, HR and Security.

• With in-country TAs, seek out and facilitate input of technical advice from backstops or members to ensure that programmes benefit from Save the Children’s global expertise, while remaining relevant to the local context. Facilitate engagement of consultants on large-scale proposals, or when technical specialists are needed.

• Represent Save the Children alongside technical experts, in consortium meetings regarding proposal development, leading these where necessary when Save the Children is a consortium lead.

• Ensure that Programme Quality Framework and Theory of Change is addressed in all new proposals and that key elements of programme quality are included (e.g., child participation, child safeguarding, gender, lessons learned from past proposals, accountability, risk assessments, effective and sustainable partnerships, etc.).